Saturday

 Good morning, everyone.  Finally, we have snow.  Well, I call it snow but there's not enough settling to make a snowball, let alone a snowman.  It's very icy and slippery underfoot though, as I found when I went to the shed just now to get today's supplied from the freezer.  No way am I going out unless I really HAVE to today.  Brrrrrr.

When I was sorting out a cupboard, I found this.

It's a really old on the hob coffee pot that Mum and Dad used to use when I was young.  When I went off for college, they gave it to me as they had a 'better one' by then and anyway the pyrex top kept breaking and had become unreplaceable.  They said it wouldn't last long - they got that wrong, didn't they?

I used it all through college and for a while afterwards until husband and I got a 'better one' but I never threw it away because of associated memories and, anyway, I rather loved the look of it and still do.

It's got to be between fifty five and sixty years old so it's become a treasure in its own right now.  I cleaned it up and have started using it and it makes jolly good coffee.  You can see how it works - put the grounds in the basket thing, fill the pot to about two thirds of its height with water (just boiled makes the whole process much faster), pop the basket into the pot, close the lid and let it percolate away on the medium heat until the coffee is done.

It seems a shame not to use it now I have discovered it and I just have to accept that when the glass top does go, that will be it.  I'm just loving using a part of my family history.

Dad got his vaccine yesterday.  He didn't have to queue, there were chairs everywhere that kept being wiped down and now he just has to get over any after effects.  He said that my aunt, Mum's sister, Diana, had hers yesterday too so that's good to know.

And the flakes are getting bigger - it is proper snow now.  :-)

Well, looking out, it's still snowing and it's heavier too.  Tiny, icy flakes that are now starting to settle on the ground as well as on the soil.  It's definitely a day in the warm for me.  I have some batch cooking to do, some ironing and the ever present clearing out.  Enough to keep me occupied anyway.

Do take care if you have to go out and have had snow.  It's more slippery than it looks sometimes.  Be safe and stay warm.  xx